Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-29
TRUE AND FALSE.
How Eastern People Write
AbDut Us.
THE TRUTH TWO TO ONE.
A Statement of the One, Well Off.
set by the Other Two
Visitors.

It is not all honey that Easter
visitors send home in their letter.
about US. An editorial in the HERALI
to-day sets forth how the people are
coming in here in scores. In spite o.
all here is what one man, blind OF
false, writes to the Chicago Tribune:
LA PUEBLO DE LOS ANGELES.
Los ANGELES. Cal, October TO-
Editor of the Tribune. ALI they can
boast of in this town is a boom built
upon deception and without other
foundation. Even the climate is a
fraud; everything is overrated. 1t
hasn't rained for six months. The
dust. is six inches deep, and,
when the wind blows, one can't
see half a block. Trees that might be
beautiful arc an eyesore on account of
the dust and sand. Nothing grows
except under irrigation-not one sprig
OF grass or any other vegetation. All
of Los An seles would be desert did
they not irrigate. Expecting to find
a land of milk and honey, you find
sand and dust, intermingled with big,
barren hills and mountains, and a
class OF people who are five years be-
hind the East in everything. They
ask from $25 to $45 month for a
small room in a private house, with
out board, gas, bath, or any conven-
ience whatever. In fact, there are no
accommodations for strangers. Why
people come here l have yet to
find out.
The passion for room-renting and
that for gambling in real estate are
about equal, and we poor Eastern
"tender-feet" ESQ they call us) pay
the penalty. They ask $35, 900 for q
house and lot that could be bought in
Chicago for halt the price. Nearly all
the buildings are frame-made from
redwood. There is scarcely u brick
building in the who town. asked
a real estate man why single lot was
considered worth $4,000. Sell it
whil+ the boom lasts or you are gone"
was the cheerful reply. They gamble
in land worse than Chicago does in
wheat, and with more fatality. Town
property is worth only what specu-
iators make out of those who
are not posted as to its real
value. Cinnamon are the chief pro-
ducers. The inhabitants are mainly
Texans, Mexicans, Spaniards and
Italians. with few Eastern people
and some cid Californians, no are
hospitable and whole-souled. The
are too small for an, use;
on them have to get out to
let other passengers on or off. They
make about four trips in two hours,
and the main street line is run by a
man and mule.
Such is the thrift and prosperity OF
the world-renowned health resort, Los
Angeles. The climate and all it's
boasted advantages are purely i'm
aginary. There is nothing beautiful
or health-giving in its surroundings.
A TRAVELLER.
Now, here is the antidote to that
poisonous statement:
THE CLIMATE or SOUTHERN cALrFoR-
MIA.
As far as the healthfulness Of the
climate is concerned, that is an old
story: There are no people here suf-
fering with that DIRE eadful destroyer,
consumption. Any one who will como
soon enUugh--that is, before the drain
age has exhausted the system-can
find health here. The results in
many cases that l have heard of since
nv coming are beyond belief. Major
Caperton, of Louisville, told me two
years ago that this was, perhaps, the
most wonderful country on the face OF
the earth for the restoration OF health
where the trouble comes from con-
l have reason to be
grateful to Major Caperton
Tor what he said to me and the
advice he gave. To those who feel a
solicitude for the health OF any OF
their dear ones on account OF lung
trouble. would say, accept the ad-
vice did: Go to California, to Los
or San Diego, and let your
suffering ones get we'll. This country
is indeed to me the garden spot OF
this beautiful land Of ours. The ever
changing delights of the climate, the
beautiful glow that is seen on cheeks
that came here, pale from malaria, or
from what might have been feared
from another and more dreadful
cause-to see these people grow strong
daily, to see their strength come in 80
certain way that you cannot mistake
it. makes those of us who have come
thank God there is a Southern Cali
fornia and good friend to point you
to it.-[Los Angeles letter in the
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Then comes the Boston Record and
tells how people are leaving new Eng
land for California in these cheerful
strains:
LOOK our FOR THE SLUMP.
In almost every suburban town
around Boston, parties are being made
up of people who are going to South
ern California, there to spend the
winter or to settle permanently. To
those who are going simply for visit,
The Record has nothing to say except
that it wishes them a rattling good
time. But to those who
are selling out their property
here in the East with the hope
of making fortune in California real
estate within year after they reach
that latitude, the Record offers the ad-
vice to ego slow" Southern Callfor-
mia may be the MOST perfect garden on
earth, but the way things have been
going there for the past three years Is
pretty good evidence that the slump
is coming before long, and we hope
that our New England people are not
the ones to be caught the worst in 1t.
To the people going to California
this winter for the purpose OF settling,
the Record suggests that they do not
sell out in the East before they start
but go out there and spend few
months, and then possibly they viii
be glad that they did not throw in al
their property there at the start.
LONG BEACH.
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